Urgent info needed on origins of red beans & rice

[anzu]

There is some supposition about why Carlin peas are eaten on this date, as well as an explanation of the word 'Carlin'. here.

This site here also discusses it a little.

Excerpt:

Judica” heißt das erste Wort des Introitus (Eingangsgebet der Messe: Judica me, Deus = Schaff’ Recht mir, Gott) am 5. Fastensonntag, dem Ersten Passionssonntag. In Großbritannien steht der Tag in Verbindung mit Speiseopfern für die Vegetationsgottheiten. In Yorkshire wurde eine Grütze aus Birnen und Erbsen zubereitet, Carlings groats, die dem Tag den Namen Carlings-Sonntag gaben. Ähnlich auf den kleinen westlichen Inseln. Hier opferte man den Windgeistern Whirling cakes, Wirbelkuchen, kleine Windbeutel. Der Tag hieß hier Whirling-Sunday. Die Erbsen als Symbol für die erhoffte Vielfalt und den Reichtum spielten auch in Wales eine Rolle. Man aß sie mit dem Wasser einer Bergquelle oder bereitete aus ihnen - vorher eingeweicht in Apfelwein, Wein oder Wasser - eine Suppe. In Nordostengland briet man Erbsen und Bohnen in Butter und würzte mit Essig und Pfeffer.

And a fairly loose translation of the above:

In Great Britain the day is linked with food offerings for the deities of vegetation. In Yorkshire a porride of pears and peas, called Carlings groats, was prepared, which gave the day the name Carlings Sunday. A similar phenomenon ocurred in the small Western islands. Here people offered Whirling cakes, small choux pastries, to the spirits of the wind. Here the day was called Whirling Sunday. In Wales, also, peas played a role as a symbol for desired variety and riches. They were eaten with water from a mountain spring, or were softened in apple cider, wine or water and then made into a soup. In Northeast England people fried peans and beans in butter, and flavored them with vinegar and pepper.

Of course, this begs the question of why one made offerings to the deities of vegetation on this particular day.

[Mayhaw Man]

My understanding has always been that they "starch on starch" thing came by way of slaves coming from the sugar cane plantations in the Caribbean into the Carolinas and New Orleans-hence the popularity of red beans and rice on the Gulf coast and Hoppin John in the Carolinas (though neither, certainly, is limited to just those geographic regions).

beans and rice are not starch on starch - they are the protein

staples in a vegetarian diet;

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